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Letters Patent No. 70,544, dated November 5, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN SCISSOS-SEARPBNBB. AND CLOTH-RIPPBR. COMBINED..

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Be it known that I, A. W. `GIFFORD, ofWorcester, in the county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Combined Scissors-Sharpener and Ripper, ofwhich the following is a full,'clear, and exact description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of thisspecification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a one-side or face-viewof an implement constructed according to my improvement.

Figure 2, an opposite side or face view, with portion o'f the frameremoved, and showing in red lines a blade of a pair of scissors in theact of being drawn through the same; and

Figure 3 a transverse section taken as indicated by the line a: in fig.1.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The nature of my invention consists in acombination of a knife, blade,or ripper with a. serratedbar or file in a frame or holder constructedto form guides tothe blades of scissors for the purpose of sharpeningthe same, whereby the work of the tailor or seamstress is greatlyfacilitated, the ripper serving to cut the stitches where it isinconvenient to use the scissors, or where the blades of the latterrequire sharpening, which the same implement serves to effect.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, A represents theframe of theimplement, which may be made o f a thin sheet of metal bent to formsides B C, the one of which is preferably made higher than the other,and which sides form guides for thefscissors-blade in being sharpened,by drawing it over a serrated steel bar or le, D, the teeth a of whichextend across-its width or thickness, and are bevellcd or inclined, asrepresented in iig. 3, to give a proper set to and bearing of thescissors-blade against the side B in being drawn over the said bar. Thisserrated bar or lilo D may either be a ixture in the frame A, or made toslide longitudinally therein, say, by means of a slot, b, in the frameA., and button or knob c connected with the bar, which has attached toor formed on its one end a blade or ripper, E, that, in case of the barD being made to slide, as described, may

be 'drawn-within the frame A, or be projected beyond its one end,accordingly as the instrument is designed to be used as a ripper .orsimply as a scissorsfsharpener. Where the bar D has no sliding provisionin its connection with the frame A, then the blad-o E should `be made toproject as a fixture beyond the end of the frame. It is preferable,however, to give to the bar, with its ripping-blade, a slidingconnection with thc frame, so as to enclose or cover the blade when notrequired to be used.` The bar D may be serrated on opposite edges, andso fitted to the frame as to be capable of being reversed, so r.thatwhen one edge has become. useless theothcr can be brought into play. Bythus .combininga ripper with a scissors-Sharpener in the one implement,the work of the seamstress will be greatly facilitated, as when thescissors are at fault the ripper may be used to sever the stitches, orthe implementnsed to sharpen the scissors, where they are preferred orcan be worked to greater convenience.

What is here claimed as new and useful, and desired to be secured byLetters Patent, is A combined scissors-Sharpener and ripper, constructedfor operation substantially as described.

A. W. GIFFORD.

Witnesses:

S. B. J. Gonnsnn, Onis. F. Cana.

